Discourse and human rights violations / / edited by Christine Anthonissen and Jan Blommaert
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| Titolo: |
Discourse and human rights violations / / edited by Christine Anthonissen and Jan Blommaert
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| Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub., c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | ix, 142 p |
| Disciplina: | 968.06 |
| Soggetto topico: | Reconciliation - Political aspects - South Africa |
| Apartheid - South Africa | |
| Apartheid in literature | |
| Human rights - South Africa | |
| Discourse analysis - South Africa | |
| War crimes - Austria - Public opinion | |
| Discourse analysis - Austria | |
| Altri autori: |
AnthonissenChristine
BlommaertJan
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| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di contenuto: | The debate on truth and reconciliation : a survey of literature on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Annelies Verdoolaege -- Narrative inequality in the TRC hearings : on the hearability of hidden transcripts / Jan Blommaert, Mary Bock, and Kay McCormick -- Critical discourse analysis as an analytic tool in considering selected, prominent features of TRC testimonies / Christine Anthonissen -- South African novelists and the grand narrative of apartheid / Annie Gagiano -- Linguistic bearings and testimonial practices / Fiona Ross -- History in the making/the making of history : the "German Wehrmacht" in collective and individual memories in Austria / Ruth Wodak. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | This paper considers narratives about traumatic pasts, using interviews with visitors of the two exhibitions about the war crimes of the German Wehrmacht, shown in Germany and Austria 1995 and 2002, as examples. Numerous justification and legitimization strategies are involved in public and private discourses. The study claims that official genres, such as school books or TV documentaries, still launch narratives which exculpate the German Wehrmacht as institution, although the evidence provided by historians and the exhibitions is overwhelming. The topoi used (such as 'doing one's duty'; 'all wars are the same'; and so forth) are to be found in similar debates in other countries as well. Hence, this case study illustrates patterns of argumentation which occur much more generally than only in the specific national contexts studied in detail here. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Discourse and human rights violations |
| ISBN: | 1-282-15485-0 |
| 9786612154850 | |
| 90-272-9273-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815517003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Benjamins current topics ; ; v. 5.